Virtue Quotes

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.

A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.